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the Preparation of Its PIans-Its Won
derful Stage Machinery-The Whole to
Exceed Anything the Country Over.
If the national political conventions of 1888
be held in the city offering greatest advan-
tages i'll the way of hall, Chicago Will surely
be chosen. This city is soon to have the larg-
est auditorium in the United States, and one
of the largest i'll the world On the lake
front, just south of the Exposition building,
in whose temporary hall Garfield, Blaine and
Cleveland were nominated, large gangs of
men and teams are now making excavations
for building of truly mammoth proportions.
This is the Chicago auditorium, for which
number of wealthy men have raised 81, 2,000,-
600. The structure will overlook the lake,
and possesses a central and most admirable
location. And what monster it is to be!
Frontage on Michigan avenue (the lake
'front.', 1S7 feet; on Congress street, SCI
feet; on Wabash avenue, 1G1 feet; total
street frontage, 100 feet. Walk seven times
from one corner of the building to the far COR
ner and you have travelled about mile. The
structure is to be ten stories high, IA feet
from curb to cornice The tower will be 225
feet high, and will constitute huge building
Of itself. Above the roof it will rise so feet
and measure II feet frontage by 40 feet deep
A very respectable sort of block that would
make, even if seated on terra firma. What
a showing it will make with its base elevated
IA feet above the street!
The auditorium is to be vast opera hall
containing 5000 chairs, and with a total
capacity in such emergencies as a national
convention, of 5000 seats. This makes it the
largest auditorium on the continent, and the
largest one i'll the world available for miscel-
laneOus public uses, as this is to be.
1t is expected that the hall will be COM
pleted in time for the national conventions of
1888, though the decorations cannot he fin
ished by that date. These will be added later
on, in time for the grand opera opening in
December. Aside from the great hall the
building will contain hotel of 400 rooms,
and it is rumOred that Edward S. Stokes, of
the Hoffman house, New York, will be tue
landlord thereof
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POCAHONTAs AT FULL SPEED


slopes back 207 feet to her Iamidship section
and from that tapers again like distance to
her stern. Her model is almost that of
Herreshoff'S famous launch, the Stietto, that
has record of 23.7 miles per hour-a speed
never until now attained by any other vessel.
But while the greatest amidship sectional
area of the Pocahontas is only 1872 times as
great as that of the Stiletto her engine power
is 213 times as great, without forcing it be-
yond the requirements of ordinary service.
The Pocahontas is all compartments She
has LOGO From stem to stern, below the
water line, are 500 of those compartments,
between the outer skin of the vessel and i'll
terror walls, riveted to her section plates.
Every one of these can be got at immedi-
ately; is large enough for a man to enter by a
man hole and to work in, and is provided with
an iron diaphragm, which enables the applica-
ton of powerful pneumatic pressure behind
it to drive out the last drop of water that
may enter through a rent in the outer skin.
1t is claimed that such an accident as sunk
the Oregon would be mere trife to the Po-
cahontas In the center of all this elaborate
defense throbs the gigantic engine that ami
mates the mighty mass.
When it comes to the furnishing of state
rooms and cabins, the Pocahontas promises
the ideal. There will be eightyfour state
rooms, each seven feet six inches wide, open
ing directly from the grand saloon, and oc-
cupying the space between it and the outer
walls of the vessel, so that there are no inner
staterooms. These will be supplied with bath
tubs, affording hot and cold water, and other
luxurieS.
In the Pocahontas every cubic foot of space
is utilized, and there is not spot down to the
EXTREMIST depths of the vessel in which a pint
of bilge water can lodge.
Gen. Charles K. Graham, formerly con-
structing engineer at the Brooklyn navy
yard, has studied the plans and specifications
of the Pocahontas, and says:
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and drunken men cannot lie down OH it-if
that be great advantage But more than
all, there can be no snow blockades. Our
engraving shows the contrast: Dakota train
showed in, as pictured by Frank Leslie's, and
the Meigs road as it would be in the snow, as
shown by experience at East Cambridge.
These are but few Of the advantages. If
the others are as the protector claims, We
may answer our initial question with cel-
tainty-a revolution in railroading is at hand
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Modern NEWSPAPER Regulations.

Omaha Editor-YOur spring poems have
not been printed, sir, because you did not
comply with our regulations
Spring Poet-May ask where failedl
Certainly. The poems were signed with
an assumed name Contributors of spring
poetry are required to inclose their real name
and address, birth record baptismal date,
police court history, marriage certificate and
divorce proceedings if any, together with a
full and frank confession of all the evil they
ever did in their lives"
My gracious! Do you need all of that as
a guarantee of good faith!"
No; we want it for publication"
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ligence and a woman of great kindness, and
who has exerted her power and abilities for
the good of her people, especially for the re-
lief of the lepers, who are so numerous
in her dominions, was an event of some
interest. Through her eXertions the Kap-
iolani home for leper girls was founded, be-
sides several schools, hospitals and public
gardens. After days rest she conversed
freely with her visitors, through the medium
of Princess Llinokalani as interpreter. She
admitted feeling of homesickness already,
but stated her intention to visit Washington
and then go on to England, looking forward
eagerly to an interview with the lady who
rules SO large an empire. As this Is the year Of
Queen Victoria's jubilee, the royal party on
board excited quite sensation. Fort
Mason, Fort Alcatraz and the British ship
Conquest gave the royal salute as the Aus
tralia neared the wharf, and the vessel was
soon boarded by officials and reporters.
Apartments have been taken at the Airing
ton, in Washington, and were occupied by
the queen and suite on May 5. 1t is expected
she will remain some time in the American
capital
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The Blight of Landlordism.

"Reginal" wants to know what is the blight
OF landlordism," of which he reads so much
Wei, we asked our landlord about it and lie
SAID it was paying a plumber, a carpen-
Ter, a painter and a plasterer $500 a
year to keep 5000 house in repair and then
have the tenant take out the door bell, chan
dellers and range and skip with about three
months rent unpaid. He says there are some
other blghts in the landlord business, which
any one may readily find out by building
lew houses to rent.-Burdette.
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fishing and 1'uddy
with good health
and good nature.
He is popular in
his Massachusetts
h ON g and will
doubtless IN a k e
friends in his new
and rather difficult
position. He was
born i'll Newbury-
port, Mass. March
%, 1916; his home
was there till he
engaged in the lum-
Der trade III Bos-
ton, and it was in
NewburypOrt that
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-19

Musical Culchah in Sheecahgo.
Oh. where abides the fond kazoo,
The barrel organ fair,
And where is heard the trala-loO
Of fish horns on the air?
And where are found the fife and drum
DiscOurSed with goodliest Zest?
And where do fiddles liveliest hum?
The west-the mighty west!
Sonatas, tugues and all o that
Are rightly judged effete,
While largoS written in B-flat
Are clearly out Of date;
Some like the cold pianny-forty,
But whistling suits us best
And op-ry, if it isn't naughty,
Will not catch on out west.
From skinninG hogs or canning beef
Or diving into stocks,
Could we expect to find relief
In Haydns or in Bachs>
All, no; from pork and wheat and lard
We turn aside with Zest
To sing some opus of some bard
Whose home is in the west.
So get We gone, We weakling crew!
Your tunes are stale and fiat
And cannot hold a candle to
The words of Silas Pratt
His opuSeS are in demand
And are the final test
BY which all others fall or stand
In this the mighty west!
Chicago News.
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engine, the engine Itself. the supporting Of
her shaft, the independent grouping of her
boilers, the arrangements for the coal supply
and the improved condition of her fire rooms
are all features of her infinite superiority over
the present mode Cf construction. As a
whole she will be immeasmably beyond any
seagoing vessel the world has ever seem"
If America should eventually rule the
waters with her ships nobody need be sur,
rrised
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a Correct Diagnosis.

Young Man to medium)-I want you TO
tell me what is the matter with me.
Medium-It will first be necessary to de-
post 81 to propitiate the spirits.
Young Man dolefully)-A dollar goes.
Medium-You do not sleep WELL you have
bad dreams and you are gloomy and medi-
tate suicide every day.
Young Man Gn great surprise)-Correct.
Medium-Take this sealed envelope-open
1t only in the privacy of your room-within
you Will find diagnosis of your disease.
Young Man (one hour later. Opens en-.
veiope and readsl-Pie for supper.-Phila-
delphia Call
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A Trifie Unreasonable.

Patieat Ito young doctor)-Why do you
charge Iae so much, doctor? had a similar
trouble last year, and Dr. Pellet cured me for
half this amount.
| Young Doctor-How long did it take him
to cure you?
Patient-Three days.
Young Doctor-Well, I've been working
on your case for nearly two weeks You can't
expect to get two weeks work for three day
price-Boston Record.
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The Oldest Anasthetic.

Carbonic acid, produced by the action OF
vinegar on marble, is supposed to have been
used as an anasthetic by the ancient Egyp-
tians and Greeks. M. Ch. Ozsnam reports 10
the Paris Biological society that an@sthesia
Induced by carbonic acid is very complete.
may last long time, and-the gas, OF course
being mixed with airs without danger
Arkapsaw Traveller.
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THE AMERICAN EXHIBITION.
Yankee Enterprise to BE Shown to the
People of England.

Yankee Enterprise to BE shown to the
People of England.
This month of May is to witness a very re-
markable enterprise-an American art and
industrial exhibition i'll London. The world
has become familiar with national exhibitions
since their Inauguration i'll the great London
Crystal palace of 1851; yet for one nation to
present an exhibition in the capital of another
Is striking novelty. and this is lust what
America is doing. The scheme was projected
three years ago, and started slowly and with
much uncertainty; but energy and tolerably
liberal supply of money have now brought it
near to success. The exhibition will be held
at West KensingtOn, near London, where
twenty-three and a half acres have been Sc
cured; and there will be three departments
First is the main building, consisting of a
front of 2l0 feet in width a court, and hall
1860 eetlong. The structure is of railroad
iron and glass, except that the floor is of
wood. From this projects the restaurant,
90 feet wide and 224 feet long, and on
the opposite side the art gallery, 50 by
100 feet OF course such limited
space could have been filled dozen times
over with typical American products, so the
management has made a rule to select only
inc DeSu III edcu IIhe, anu especially tnOSe III
which America excels. Agricultural ma
chinery will be a very prominent feature, as
that is probably the line of greatest Ameri-
can success.
The second department is chiefly in the
open air, and great space is given to Buffalo
Bills Wild West show.
The third department consists of the orna-
mental gardens and pleasure grounds, with
music pavilions and bands. In these every
American flower and plant that will bear
transplanting to the London climate will be
exhibited
The successive British exhibitions have
drawn many Americans, and this American
exhibition in Britain, III the year of the
queens jubilee, will, no doubt, delight mil.
lions of Englishmen. The exhibition viii
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-19
AZ Ji6 Ionoon S,reer

Some enterprising persons have built and
thrown open to the public in New York
fac simnle as near as may be of a street in
old London town. OF course, no street in
old London had half way down its length a
square corner as this has and no one street
had SO many places of special interest as this
counterfeit street has. But tine venture is a
success, no doubt, to some extent from an
antiquarian point of view, as it certainly is
from financial standpoint. The cut gives
fair idea Of the appearance of tina "StrAA+-n
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tory OF the enterprise, with brief description
i'll connection with the cuts we present, will
enable the reader to form Judgment on
these important questions
Mr.. Meigs says that he conceived the idea
of such railroad i'll 1851, but was near
twenty years in perfecting it. In lS19-S0 he
formed an association to push it; in 1881 he
made application to the Massachusetts legis-
lature for a charter, but was overwhelmingly
defeated Three years of hard work secured
him the approval of the legislature; but in the
meantime an influential section of Boston had
been converted to his views and G4 900 citizens
signed petition for charter. This provided
for the organization of the "Meigs Elevated
Railway company" to construct a road from
Bowdoin square, in Boston, to the city Of
Cambridge, restricting the widest part of the
track to twenty-two..and one-half inches, and
providing strictly that such road should not
be built until its safety had been proved to the
board Of railroad commissioners or competent
engineers appointed by them. To convince
them and other doubters the experimental
track at East Cambridge was erected This
consists of a level way abruptly changing to
a grade of 120 feet to the mile upon half
circle or horseshoe curve on radius of only
fifty feet Indeed, SO short is the curve that
long passenger car going around it has its
middle section almost entirely off the track,
the trucks following around the curve, while
the car, Of course, remains straight. Almost
every observer, and not few engineers, said
that an engine of thirty tons, with tender,
drawing a car longer than the radius of the
curve and the train occupying 1OG of the 157
feet i'll the half circle, could not possibly
make such a turn, much less ascend grade
of f20 feet to the mile. Yet it was dOne-not
once, but many hundred times. The adhe-
sion Of engine and cars to the track is secured
by inclined wheels, grooved to set on pro
iecting edges below the center of the car, as
well as by horizontal wheels.
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"Her method of construction is, beyond all
question, the strongest possible. She could
without injury be supported by her two
ends, or the center, and used as a bridge.
Indeed there is not bridge in the world that
in proportion to its length possesses such
strength as she does. And she Will be beyond
the possibility of destruction by fire or water,
since she will be non-sinkable and non-burn-
able. Had our government at the COM
mencement of our civil war been in posses
sion of these plans it could have constructed
within six or seven months fifteen or twenty
vessels for war purposes that would have been
unrivaled in strength, speed and effective
ness. Her system of compartments and the
application of pneumatic pressure in them
are of the greatest value. The placing of her
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North Edgecombe, Me. In 1856 he was APP
pointed master mechanic of the Ohio and
Mississippi road, and in October, 1862, superin-
tendent of the western division of the Erie
railway. He also held other positions of trust
in the railway service. In October, 1869, Jay
Gould, then president of the Erie, ordered
the shops to be removed from Dunkirk; and
to prevent what he considered a calamity to
the town and the resident workmen, Mr.
Brooks leased the property and organized the
Brooks Locomotive works, which have been
in successful operation ever since.
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The Late III. C. Brooks.

Horatio G.. Brooks who died at his residence
in Dunkirk, N. Y, recently, was early noted
among the railroad workers of the country
and later became an extensive manufacturer of
locomotives He had three times been mayor
Of Dunkirk.
Mr.. Brooks was born Oct so, 1928, at
Portsmouth, N H, and at the age of 16
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began as apprentice
to the trade of
nachinist. In 1916
he entered shops Of
the Boston and
Maine railroad at
! Andover, Mass. He
! advanced rapidly
and soon became a
distinguished loco
motive engineer.
running the first en-
;gine in Chautauqua
C count ty, N. Y.
March 6, 1851, he
married Miss Julia
a uanuatt of
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1t should be added that there are not want
ing those who claim that the exhibition is
merely an annex to COdy's Wild West, and
who say all manner of unpleasant things
about the enterprise. Quite a stir was raised
over the patronage list, it will be remem-
bered, but nothing seriously detrimental to
the exhibitions success has transpired
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Name This Ffah.

Cut off my head and singular am,
Cut off my tail and plural appear;
Although my middle's left there's nothing thera
What is my head cut off? A sounding sea.
What is my tail cut off? Arushing river.
And in their mngng depths fearless play,
Parent Of sweetest sounds yet mute forever
An Enigma by Macaulay.
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KAP!OLANI, OF HAWAII.

Meaning the Queen of the Sandwich
Islands, Now in This Country.
The queen of the Sandwich Islands is now
in the United States, on her way to England,
having arrived at San Francisco somewhat
recently in the steamer Australia. She is ac-
companied by King Kalakaua's sister, the
Princess Lilinokalani, who speaks English
fluently, while the queen speaks only her
native Kanaka. The arrival Of the steamer
at San Francisco with ruler OF much intel
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1887-05-19
WEARINESS.

l. there an end to weariness in life?
To all this ceaseless and tumultuous strife
That. from the very cradle to the grave,
Appals the hearts of e en- the strong and brave
80, esszr-s-AzsSSszsl;B
IL there an end to this anxiety FSTa =" - ~
That haunts us hour by hour and will not flee
Or are made to mourn through day and
night?
To walk in shade and never in the light?
+ there an end TO losses and TO pain?
And will there come time when naught but
gain. -
VIII follow all our unremtting toll.
And when no foe shall force us to recoil :
Is there an end TO this dull dreary mode ze5
OF life? Or must our feet still press the road.
Leading through places dangerous and dark,
Where scarce an eye discerns one shining mark :?
sssAzz-,. aeaay--esr-spansdfaB
Nay, do not look for perfect peace and rest ! so4S
A life of noble conflict is the best;
And chivary will win brighter crown '
Than could gain by casting burdens down.
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HON. EDWARD A. MOSElEY
Chosen Secretary of the Interstate Com-
mission.
Special CORRESPONDENCE,

Special Correspondence
BOSTON, May 1.-The Hon. Edward Au-
gustus Moselev, who was lately appointed
secretary of the interstate commerce com.
mission. is wholesome and active man
of business bronZed by travel and summer
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n Serious Difficulty I'm tnu,,,,

The French company which is putting tele-
graph lines in AMMAN finds itself confronted
with serious difficulty. Recently one of the
lines ceased working, and a party was sent
out to locate the break. At the gates of an
Annamite village the Frenchmen were met
by an amiable deputation of the inhabitants
I'VE are very poor" said the head man of the
village, "and we have felt it necessary to take
the wires off the poles in our territory and
sell them; but in order that your excellencies
need not be subjected to any inconvenience.
we have replaced the wire by the neatest
bamboo rods that we could find, all neatly
fitted together. We trust that YOU are salts
fled with the change. Boston transcript.
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Our first engraving shows the end of a car
on the track. also the trucks, the post and its
setting Observe that the truck wheels stand
at an angle little above - degs.; that they
are deep grooved instead of tlanged, doubling
the hange as it were, and thus doubling the
adhesion, and that any extra pressure toward
either side of the car would vastly increase
the resistance as well as the adhesion. The
car may be called tubular, except that the
bottom is leveled little Since the first ex-
periments the Meigs train has been run
around broken and irregular curves and up
grades as steep as 345 feet to the mile-ad-
besion to the track as secured by the meth
ods described dispensing with the necessity of
heavier engines. The grooved or double
Hanged wheel is only one of the devices EN-
ployed to prevent derailment, and Mr., Meigs
claims that if every wheel of every car
were thrown from its bearing surface, the
trucks must remain astride the track
and resist the side movement, SO the
car would only glide along till brought
to a stop by friction of the appliances
for that purpose There are also inge-
nious arrangements for checking the momen-
tum of the train when collision is threatened,
of detaching the cars and stopping each sep
arately and of preventing fires and other acct
dents Our engraving does not show the ell
gine or method of traction. This is obtained
by two small horizontal wheels pressing
against the sides of the upper rail.
1t is scarcely necessary to add that if ex-
perience further justifes the Meigs claim, the
advantages will be intellectually great. We
at once get rid of all the troubles from dust,
mud, overfiows, washouts, animals on the
track, the crossing of common roads, rotting
ties and many others. The road may run
down the middle of the busiest street, fifteen
feet or more above the surface, present but
a trif1ing obstacle to traffic and no annoy
ance to residents on either side. In the
country the cost of constructing the roadway
will be somewhat reduced, and of getting
the right of way very greatly; for the single
line of support may traverse field and meadow
at will, interfering but slightly with the cul-
tivator and not at all with the traveller
Neithe,. frosts nor freezes can affect the track
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MEIGS ELEVATED ROAD.
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1t Would Make a Difference.
II wouldn't be fool, if were you," said
Jones to friend.
If you were me you wouldn't be q fool"
was the reply.-Mail and Express.
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CHICAGO'S BIG HALL.
IT WILL GO BY THE BIG NAME
OF AUDITORIUM"

An Army of Architects Engaged Upon
the Preparation of Its Plans-Its Won
derful Stage Machinery-The Whole to
Exceed Anything the Country Over.